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*{{cite book |title=Classical mechanics |author=John R. Taylor |year=2005 |publisher=University Science Books |isbn=189138922X |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=P1kCtNr-pJsC&printsec=frontcover}} A readable introduction at an undergraduate level.


* {{cite book | author=[[Richard Feynman]]| title=Character of Physical Law | publisher=Random House | year=1994 | id=ISBN 0-679-60127-9}}
*{{cite book | author=[[Richard Feynman]]| title=Character of Physical Law | publisher=Penguin | year=2007 |edition=Republication of Random House 1994 ed | isbn=0141956119 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=zMwTcCz4d18C}} A 1960 series of lectures for the BBC.


* {{cite book | author=Richard Feynman, Robert Leighton and Matthew Sands | title=The Feynman Lectures on Physics | publisher=Addison-Wesley | year=1989 | id=ISBN 0-201-51003-0}}
*{{cite book | author=Richard Feynman, Robert Leighton and Matthew Sands | title=The Feynman Lectures on Physics, volume 1: Mainly mechanics radiation and heat | publisher=Addison-Wesley | year=1989 | id=ISBN 0-201-51003-0 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=yKPvAAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_similarbooks}} An out-of-print but engaging introduction.


*{{cite book |title=The variational principles of mechanics |author=Cornelius Lanczos |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ZWoYYr8wk2IC&printsec=frontcover |isbn=0486650677 |edition=Reprint of the University of Toronto 4th edition of 1970 |year=1986|publisher=Courier Dover Publications}} A very engaging discussion of classical mechanics from the Hamiltonian and especially the Lagrangian stances.
*{{cite book | author=[[Lev Davidovich Landau]] and [[Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz]] | title=Mechanics |year=1976
*{{cite book | author=[[Lev Davidovich Landau]] and [[Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz]] | title=Mechanics |year=1976
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}} An extremely authoritative but advanced treatment first published in 1960.
 
*{{cite book |title=Mathematical methods of classical mechanics |author=Vladimir Igorevich Arnolʹd |edition=2nd ed |isbn=0387968903 |year=1989 |publisher=Springer |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Pd8-s6rOt_cC&printsec=frontcover}} An authoritative but very mathematical and complete discussion.
 
 
 


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  • Cornelius Lanczos (1986). The variational principles of mechanics, Reprint of the University of Toronto 4th edition of 1970. Courier Dover Publications. ISBN 0486650677.  A very engaging discussion of classical mechanics from the Hamiltonian and especially the Lagrangian stances.